From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,78a1af350f4cf4b X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Gautier Subject: Re: Win2000 has 63,000 'defects' Date: 2000/02/17 Message-ID: <38AC4740.BD43D0E4@maths.unine.ch>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 587016287 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <38A989B7.2D4D6B56@maths.unine.ch> <87k8k69qm9.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> <88h6ii$9em$1@nnrp1.deja.com> X-Accept-Language: en Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 17 Feb 2000 19:07:28 +0100, mac13-32.unine.ch MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-02-17T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Florian: > > 63,000 `potential known defects' (whatever this means) isn't too bad > > for a software product consisting of over 30 million lines of code, is > > it? Maybe you are true. But I doubt that the power of a bug -whatever it is- is diluted by the number of lines. A fatal bug won't crash the system softer if you add 30 million other lines... Ted: > Personally I agrree with that. However, ZDNet has an interesting article > disagreeing at > http://www.zdnet.com/zdhubs/stories/special2000/0,9968,2439261,00.html . > I'm not sure I agree with that author's implication that its possible to > write large sotware that is bug-free. But he goes into the economic cost > of all those bugs, and the fact that most of the bugs were in a very few > of the modules. Its one of the best unintentional bits of Ada advocacy > I've ever seen. It is quite reassuring that one finds "57 percent of the software errors in only 7 percent of the studied modules" (the article). But it doesn't tell how the 43 other % are distributed... (see my little probabilistic simulation in another sub-thread). According to the stability of past Windows releases "the good one" will be out in 2001 or 2002... -- Gautier _____\\________________\_______\ http://members.xoom.com/gdemont/